On 02/11/11 15:41, Brendan Eich wrote:
On Nov 2, 2011, at 9:26 AM, John J Barton wrote:
Of course these details are
important for the use-cases that need them. Unfortunately everyone
else has to carry the baggage.
What exactly do you mean by "carry"?
Implementors have to implement. They get the big bucks and bear the burden for
the greater good.
Most users *do not* have to carry all the ES5 APIs in their head. Almost no users ever
even need to use Object.create. Perhaps this is a missed opportunity, but that's a
different argument from what your use of "carry" implies.
Imho, no users *SHOULD* use Object.create directly. That's why
abstractions exist — and first class functions make it easy enough to
make them.
Also, there are plenty of libraries provide nice abstractions over the
low-level part of the language (pd being the simplest one, I guess), to
a point I think criticising a built-in feature for being "too generic"
is kind of missing the point...
It's been this way with the DOOM too, isn't it?
_______________________________________________
es-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
